High School - History Topics

[elzoog]

The Tudors are not British history. Sorry, that's just the history MA in me trying to get some use out of his degree.

Please explain.  Sounds controversial!   ;)
This is the site I used for my outline that listed Tudors as part of British history http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Tudors.html

They're English (and Welsh) history, not British. I'd check out your PPT but my computer won't open that version of it.

I'd love to teach British (or English) history to my HS students but I couldn't for the life of me figure out a way to do it that wouldn't be even more boring than Korean history to them.

What I hate about HS history is all the good stuff is censored out.   I don't know about English history so I can't comment on that specifically.   However, in American history, Ben Franklin is known to have advised a young man who wanted to have fun with women while avoiding marriage to go for the older women.   One reason was, the older women are much more grateful.

Also, Gandhi (you know, the famous leader of India) liked to sleep naked with teenage girls and give them enemas in the morning.

[adamwatch]

Did you know that we used to use the USA as well as Australia as a a place to send our convicts, explains a lot that does!

Adam

[lb129]

aren't all the "british" mongrels from norway, germany and italy. Its kinda just semantics as to whether or not the Tudors were british/english/welsh or whatever. Their influence still affected the British Isles and is there for part of British History. Such like the Romans affected British History but were in no way actually British.

[Yu_Bumsuk]

The Tudors are not British history. Sorry, that's just the history MA in me trying to get some use out of his degree.

Please explain.  Sounds controversial!   ;)
This is the site I used for my outline that listed Tudors as part of British history http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Tudors.html

They're English (and Welsh) history, not British. I'd check out your PPT but my computer won't open that version of it.

I'd love to teach British (or English) history to my HS students but I couldn't for the life of me figure out a way to do it that wouldn't be even more boring than Korean history to them.

What I hate about HS history is all the good stuff is censored out.   I don't know about English history so I can't comment on that specifically.   However, in American history, Ben Franklin is known to have advised a young man who wanted to have fun with women while avoiding marriage to go for the older women.   One reason was, the older women are much more grateful.

Also, Gandhi (you know, the famous leader of India) liked to sleep naked with teenage girls and give them enemas in the morning.

And MLK was certainly no saint in private.

[gmhahn]

Very nice work. I like the moving graphics.

A few corrections:
The dates on the Vietnam War are wrong and you mention Sitting Bull being alive in the 1920s, when he died a few decades earlier. That pen drawing of Jefferson looks more like Washington than Franklin, like the other poster said. Although Im 100% sure none of the students would notice any of these minor errors.

Tthis kind of presentation would be useful in teaching basic American history in American schools. Thanks for posting it!

[oatmealkooky]

Miss S, good stuff. My background is in history, so if you'd like I could take a swing at correcting some of your errors. They're all minor, but they still count. :D

PS, I'm American too. ;)

[Miss S]

Miss S, good stuff. My background is in history, so if you'd like I could take a swing at correcting some of your errors. They're all minor, but they still count. :D

PS, I'm American too. ;)

Yeah that would be great if you could repost a more accurate version here!  Super!

[oatmealkooky]

Okay, I'll post it when I can. :D

[redchillipepper]

Interesting that your history of South Africa is synopsized into three aspects of Boer History (glossing over apartheid), your culture/food/music of South Africa is purely Boer/Afrikaans culture, and you don't mention anything of anything of the other cultures apart from a slide titled 'tradtitional villages'.

JUST GET ON WITH LIFE! If you actually went through the trouble of making a lesson plan like this you wouldn't even have mention the so-called "boer/afrikaans" culture

[Miss S]

Because it was July 4th this week I decided to follow on my US History lesson (http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,384.msg86995.html#msg86995) with something about George Washington and the American War of Independence.  But this would also be relevant any other week too.

The lesson plans as follows:

• First distribute the handout.  Ask who is 'George Washington'?
• Show the ppt of George Washington in Context in history.  This is from a section of my previous week's US History lesson.  Merely recapping what students should, but probably don't fully remember.
• On the handout do the vocabulary section.
• Next, show video clips from the animation "General George Washington"  available at (use a YouTube downloader to capture the video)  I didn't show the entire film, but chose parts 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9 to show in class.  This was approximately 20 min.
• Return to the handout and read the passage about George Washington.
• Allow student time to complete the comprehension questions at the back of the handout.
• There is another ppt attachment for answers to the handout.